Florida Keys Weekly Newspapers

It’s not sunshine and rainbows at city hall. The ACLU of Florida on Sept. 9 filed a second lawsuit against the city of Key West, alleging that city officials retaliated against two local residents who filed the first lawsuit pertaining to rainbow-painted fence pickets in Old Town. Old Town residents Nicole Sohn and Linda Bagley-Sohn […]

A pre-meeting reception on Sept. 8 heralded the Sept. 9 retirement of the Monroe County School Board’s longest-tenured member, as staff, friends and board members past and present gathered at Marathon High School to celebrate John Dick.  The outgoing chair has been a mainstay on the board for 20 years, following his service in the […]

The setting of the recent screening at Playa Largo for “The Gentleman Thief,” which stars John Travolta, could not have been more photogenic. If it were described in a script, the reader may not have believed the perfection of the scene: Elegantly dressed partygoers sipped cocktails next to trickling fountains and candelabra on a balconied […]

When Florida became a territory of the United States, any land not subject to a Spanish Land Grant became government property. There were a handful of islands in the Florida Keys that had been granted to individuals for various reasons – most famously, Key West. Indian Key was not one of them. The island, like […]

Coral Shores may not have won the points battle in its Sept. 2 season opener, but a pair of Hurricanes gave the team plenty to be excited about, turning in September times faster than their marks at last season’s regional championship.  Sofia Figueredo was already ahead of her postseason pace from a year ago in […]